When October rolled around this year, I kept thinking and thinking about December Daily. I kept thinking I wanted to do something more mixed media instead of the straight scrapbooking this year. I kept thinking and thinking but no ideas actually came to me.
For weeks.
And then as I was doing my morning sketch, I got an idea. What if I took another moleskine watercolor journal just like the one I was using for my daily sketches and turned it into a december daily album and sketched one holiday related sketch for every day.
Once I got the idea, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So I spent the whole weekend coming up with ideas, sketching, painting, and then using stickles for shimmer, and then scrapbooking/collaging all around my pages.
I finished the whole book in one weekend and I love the way it turned out. I have no idea what’s going to happen once I have the photos + stories but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Especially since I happen to be out of the country, alone, for the first 5 days of this December.
The cover, for now, is solid gold. I just put lots and lots of gold tape. I haven’t decided what else will go there yet and I think I will do it much later. That’s why you won’t see one today.
So with all that, here are my pre pages. Lots of photos to follow.
page one:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page two:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page three:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page four:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page five:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page six:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page seven:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page eight:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page nine:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page ten:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page eleven:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twelve:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page thirteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page fourteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page fifteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page sixteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page seventeen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page eighteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page nineteen:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty-one:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty-two:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty-three:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty-four:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
page twenty-five:
and here’s the sketch with the glitter:
So there we are. Trying something new this year. Let’s see if it works.
